Weekly Megathread 3: Privacy, or why I wear a tinfoil hat :foucault-madness:

This week's question/topic is why does privacy matter to you as a leftist?

Please use this as a place for general discussion about free software, as well as a place to ask for help or tech support with FOSS.

:curious-marx: What is free software?

Free or "libre" software is defined as software that gives you, the user, the freedom to share, study, and modify it. We call this free software because the user is free.

:volcel-judge: Stop using proprietary software!

With proprietary software nobody knows what's going on under the hood.

:cia: and friends have a much easier time sneaking :sus-deep: garbage in. Consider the following replacements for non-free software:

:LIB:erate your life, :LIB:!

Tell use which software you can't find a libre alternative to, and we'll help you out.

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  • goatman93 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Exactly! It's just the same idea of community, sharing, building a better tomorrow and applying it from there. Helped my "tech only" brain when I was in college to think beyond computers